republic-os/legislation/us/states/ga/2019-20/sb-15.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"Keeping Georgia's Schools Safe Act\""
description: "A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, so as to require public and private schools to have performed certain threat assessments; to amend Article 9 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, so as to provide for the center's role in preventing, discovering, responding to, and recovering from threats, warnings, and developing situations regarding any public or private school; to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to property tax exemptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ga"
legislature: "Georgia General Assembly"
session: "2019_20"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Georgia SB 15 (2019_20)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ben Watson", "Bill Cowsert", "Brandon Beach", "Bruce Thompson", "Butch Miller", "Chuck Hufstetler", "Frank Ginn", "Greg Kirk", "Jeff Mullis", "John Albers", "John Kennedy", "Kay Kirkpatrick", "Larry Walker, III", "Lee Anderson", "Mike Dugan", "P. K. Martin IV", "Randy Robertson", "Steve Gooch", "Tyler Harper", "William Ligon, Jr."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 15
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb657b09-21f3-4075-8a62-1a606fddb917"
source_url: "http://webservices.legis.ga.gov/GGAServices/Legislation/Service.svc?wsdl"
source_hash: "925301ac25c5a26aed3bfe4c76b98e4d617f9195156f29209b5073a15c36cc8c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ga"]
---

# Georgia SB 15 (2019_20) — "Keeping Georgia's Schools Safe Act"

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 27 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to loitering at or disrupting schools, so as to require public and private schools to have performed certain threat assessments; to amend Article 9 of Chapter 3 of Title 35 of the O.C.G.A., relating to the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, so as to provide for the center's role in preventing, discovering, responding to, and recovering from threats, warnings, and developing situations regarding any public or private school; to amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the O.C.G.A., relating to property tax exemptions; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced LC 41 1664** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/179456.pdf)
2. **As passed Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/183062.pdf)
3. **Committee sub LC 41 1846S** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/182171.pdf)
4. **Floor Amendment AM 41 0466** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187401.pdf)
5. **LC 41 2032S/hss** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/186367.pdf)
6. **LC 41 2042S/hrs** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187146.pdf)
7. **SB 15/HCSFA** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187404.pdf)
8. **SB15/AP*** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20192020/187482.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTE — **47–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ben Watson — primary (person)
- Bill Cowsert — primary (person)
- Brandon Beach — primary (person)
- Bruce Thompson — primary (person)
- Butch Miller — primary (person)
- Chuck Hufstetler — primary (person)
- Frank Ginn — primary (person)
- Greg Kirk — primary (person)
- Jeff Mullis — primary (person)
- John Albers — primary (person)
- John Kennedy — primary (person)
- Kay Kirkpatrick — primary (person)
- Larry Walker, III — primary (person)
- Lee Anderson — primary (person)
- Mike Dugan — primary (person)
- P. K. Martin IV — primary (person)
- Randy Robertson — primary (person)
- Steve Gooch — primary (person)
- Tyler Harper — primary (person)
- William Ligon, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-15** Senate Hopper
- **2019-01-16** Senate Read and Referred `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-22** Senate Read Second Time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** Senate Third Read `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-02-28** House First Readers `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** House Second Readers `reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** House Third Readers `reading-3`
- **2019-04-02** House Passed/Adopted By Substitute `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub
- **2019-04-09** Senate Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-10** Senate Date Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-10** Veto V7 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb657b09-21f3-4075-8a62-1a606fddb917`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Georgia legislature records).